Sunday, Sept. 4 will see the hosting of the Seventh Annual Put The Guns Down Festival at Washington Park areas 9 and 10.
From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., the festival will host performances by local rap artists – most notably Ray Nitti – as well as Pittsburgh’s Jasiri X and New Orleans Dee-1.
A soccer clinic will be put on by DeMetrius White, a member of Puerto Rico’s national team, in addition to people being on site to register new voters who will also educate people about the voting process.
There will be a neighborhood march at 11 a.m. to kick the event off, with gathering for the march beginning at 10:30 a.m. at 40th and Galena.
Contests, other events, and free food will also be part of the festival.
Born in Milwaukee and raised in the Milwaukee suburb of Brown Deer, Concordia University Wisconsin alumnus Poppe has spent the majority of his life in or around the city and county of Milwaukee.
As an advocate of Milwaukee's hip-hop community Poppe began popular local music blog Milwaukee UP in March 2010. Check out the archived entries here.
Though heavy on the hip-hop, Poppe writes about other genres of music and occasionally about food, culture or sports, and is always ready to show his pride in Milwaukee and Wisconsin.
